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Shape Your World
At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.
This is your opportunity to help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. Become a valued part of the team that's shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. Be part of it and shape your world.
About the Role:
Join us at Portland Aluminium as a Port Facilities Supervisor, where you will play a pivotal role in the Vessel unloading Operations at the Port of Portland.
As a leader you will foster a culture of responsibility and accountability, ensuring safe and efficient operations aligned with our business objectives whilst building strong relationships across site operations and functions.
This diverse role will involve supervising vessel unloading operations, including bulk material handling, to ensure safe, efficient, and timely discharge in accordance with operational plans and port regulations, and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and maritime regulations, including hazard identification.
Core Activities:
Monitor equipment performance (e.g. ship unloaders, conveyors, hoppers) and co-ordination of overland and storage (silos) cleaning with maintenance teams to ensure operational readiness and minimise downtime.
Liaise with vessel agents, stevedores, and terminal operations staff to coordinate berth scheduling, unloading progress, and cargo documentation requirements.
Represent Portland Aluminium at the Port of Portland - Port User Group meetings, and other community and site meetings as required.
Facilitate the development of crew operating principles, plans, and milestones through coaching and skill development.
Promote a safety culture within the crew, ensuring adherence to safe work practices through expectation setting and performance assessment.
Motivate and challenge teams for continuous improvement, providing positive recognition and feedback.
Provide training, development, and guidance to individuals to enable them to achieve department objectives.
Maintain and improve the performance of critical processes within the area through regular audits and continuous improvement efforts.
What you can bring to the role:
Port operations and vessel unloading experience is preferred
Collaborative leadership style, with experience in coaching individuals and developing an inclusive team to achieve organisational objectives.
Strong communication and influencing skills to build relationships at all levels.
Demonstrated ability to make decisions and work with autonomy.
Ability to identify continuous improvements opportunities in a manufacturing environment.
Excellent safety leadership, with a commitment to maintaining a strong health and safety culture.
Experience in working within a production environment where you have gained a comprehensive knowledge of process/production operational activities
Additional information
Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.
You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.
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About the Location
Our Portland Smelter is a joint venture between Alcoa of Australia (55%), CITIC (22.5%) and Marubeni Aluminium Australia (22.5%). Alcoa manages the day-to-day operations at the smelter and we produce approximately 19 per cent of Australia's total aluminium production in Portland. We are proud of the long-standing relationships we have within our local community and are committed to supporting social and diverse causes.
We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!
Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.
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